The dark clutches of culture of death seem to keep spreading. We have written before about euthanasia and the ramifications of believing that killing is the solution to suffering. Canada is intent on forging ahead with its liberal agenda, with Medical Assistance In Dying being extended to the mentally ill for the next year. Wesley Smith of The Discovery… Read More A deadly slope
We are not the first to point out that there is something funky about the famous “food pyramid”. Just when normal folk are beginning to question whether nutritional science is as settled as the cereal boxes say, Tufts School of Nutrition has released the shiny new Food Compass. Pirate Wires made it the subject of… Read More Pyramid scheme
If you are anything like us, you’re probably tired of the midterm election post-mortems. Everyone has a take as well as all the right evidence to show their take is the true one – what the Dems did right, what the GOP did wrong, how the voters are stupid and the US is doomed, no matter who wins. Prognosticating is above our pay… Read More More like a ripple
(Part 7 in the multipart series “Where We Stand”) When Jesus of Nazareth drove the Sadducean profiteers out of his House of Prayer, He was announcing the fact that evil acts result in their own apocalyptically destructive consequences. God doesn’t need so much to punish evil as to step back and let evil punish itself.… Read More Vengeance is Mine
You know how it goes.. In the aftermath of a terrible attack, the social media scavengers descend on the posting history of the perpetrator to pin him to one side of politics or the other – See? he was a fascist! He was a hippie! He shopped at Kroger! He owns a Tesla! Your rhetoric… Read More Picking sides
(Part 6 in the multipart series “Where We Stand”) The hardest part of Christianity is authentically believing all the crazy stuff Jesus said. This is especially true because modern theologizing has descended into sophistics. Trapped in jargon and political formulae, our ability to believe the plain words of the Bible has atrophied into a caricature. Christianity… Read More Slay them before me
Mashed potato, tomato soup, super glue and priceless art. Warhol? No, just climate alarmists doing their darnedest to disrupt the lives of regular folks, blocking highways and making mischief at galleries. People seem to be getting a little sick of the new form of environmentalist hissy fits. While these activists believe they are “stopping oil” and saving the… Read More Recipe for madness
Readers may have heard of the “15 minute city”. While the idea of a human-scale city, planned so everyone has what they need locally has long been a dream of a number of thought-leaders, the idea rose in popularity during the pandemic. With a chunk of the workforce staying at home, the vision of self-contained… Read More Fifteen-minute city
A new study recently published shows that children between 11 and 18 years of age are spending an astonishing 70 hours a week on devices. Joy Pullman wrote about the findings warning that this is a national crisis. “If your child did anything [else] for 10 hours a day, you’d be worried about him and work strenuously to bring some… Read More Home screen
Emily Oster, an economist who teaches at Brown University, generated a social media storm last week after she suggested it was time for a “pandemic amnesty”. The Atlantic article she wrote argues that because we were all “in the dark”, no one could be expected to have known what was right. “In the face of so much uncertainty, getting… Read More Under the rug
